Devil in a Blue Dress

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Mosley attended Goddard College and Johnson State College, and he became a computer programmer before publishing his first novel,
Devil in a Blue Dress (1990; film 1995). Set in 1948, the novel introduces Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins, an unwilling amateur detective from the Watts section of Los Angeles. It presents period issues of race relations and mores as the unemployed...